News from September 2014
By Interior Newswire | Sep 16, 2014
News Release: The National Park Service has issued a prospectus soliciting for proposals in response to a business opportunity to operate overnight horse camp service at Station Camp within the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area located on Station Camp Road near Oneida, Tennessee. The camp includes a shower house and 24 trailer/tent sites each with tie ups, electrical hookups and water.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2014
News Release: Christopher Heath-Lowther, age 30, of Platteville, Wisconsin, has been charged with one count of transporting a minor across a state line with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity and one count of traveling across a state line for the purpose of engaging in illicit sexual conduct. The charges are contained in an Indictment filed on Sept. 10, 2014, in United States District Court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Angelica Leonore Delmoral, 26, of Reading, PA, was charged by indictment, unsealed today, with six counts of making false statements to federal firearms licensees. The indictment charges that the defendant straw purchased ten pistols for another person between July 19, 2011 and July 23, 2011.
By State Newswire | Sep 16, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chairman Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and Ranking Member Bob Corker (R-TN) introduced the Ukraine Freedom Support Act of 2014, legislation that imposes broad sanctions on Russia’s defense, energy, and financial sectors, as well as increases military and non-military assistance for Ukraine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Detroit-area hematologist-oncologist pleaded guilty today for his role in a health care fraud scheme, admitting that he administered unnecessary chemotherapy to fraudulently bill the Medicare program and private insurance companies. According to court records, the scheme enabled the doctor to submit approximately $225 million in claims to Medicare over six years.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 16, 2014
News Release: ANCHORAGE - At a Sept. 15, 2014 signing ceremony, NANA Regional Corporation, Inc. (NANA) received land patents totaling 178,814 acres from the Bureau of Land Management, fulfilling NANA’s land entitlements for Kiana, Noorvik, and Selawik village corporations. These entitlements, totaling 391,680 acres, were established under the Alaska Native Claims Act of Dec. 18, 1971 (ANCSA).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2014
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that Kyong Hee Kim, 56, entered a guilty plea to mail fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Kim joined with Sun Sims, 52, and others to defraud the Municipality of Anchorage by evading the payment of cigarette excise tax. Sun Sims pleaded guilty on September 5, 2014, for her role in the crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-Attorney General Eric Holder, Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Carlin and U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. for the Western District of New York announced today that a federal grand jury in Rochester has returned a seven-count indictment charging Mufid A. Elfgeeh...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2014
News Release: Memphis, TN - Billy Ray Wyatt, age 54, of Hazel, KY, was sentenced to 10 years or 120 months in federal prison Friday following his guilty plea to one count of coercion of a minor to engage in sexual activity, announced Edward L. Stanton III, United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee.
By State Newswire | Sep 16, 2014
News Release: Dear Senator Desras: As members of the United States Congress and as longtime friends of Haiti, we write to express our concern over the continued delay in the holding of critical elections this year in Haiti. As elected representatives of the Haitian people, we are sure you and your colleagues share...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2014
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Michael Beaudoin, 29, of Essex Junction, Vermont, was sentenced on Sept. 15, 2014, in United States District Court in Burlington, Vermont, to serve 121-months imprisonment and a 15-year period of supervised release following...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2014
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - A Dallas man pleaded guilty to bringing a minor to Bossier City, La., for prostitution, U.S. Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2014
News Release: Dmitry Braverman Charged With At Least Eight Different Trades Based On Nonpublic Information About Mergers And Acquisitions Activity Of The Law Firm’s Clients.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2014
News Release: 31 Defendants - including 20 Doctors - Have Pleaded Guilty to Roles in Massive Scheme.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 16, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the following statement in observance of the one-year anniversary of the Navy Yard tragedy in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 16, 2013...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 16, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON -Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., at a hearing today said the incentives for saving in the tax code are not getting to the people who need them most. Wyden also raised the issue of executives and millionaires storing massive amounts of money in IRAs as a misuse of the system and should be examined further.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Jordan McCloud, 22, of Rochester, NY, was taken into police custody early this morning by members of the U.S. Marshals Service with assistance from the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Cyber Task Force and the Rochester Police...
By USDA Newswire | Sep 16, 2014
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on two produce businesses for failure to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By Interior Newswire | Sep 16, 2014
News Release: National Park Service Fire Managers are planning to burn an 11-acre (4.5-hectare) field in Acadia National Park near the intersection of ME 3 and Northeast Creek in Bar Harbor on Sept. 18, 2014. The actual start of the fire will be dependent upon weather and wind conditions. An attempt to burn this field in late August was not possible, because weather and wind conditions were not within the required prescription.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Watchung, New Jersey, man today admitted producing and transporting sexually explicit videos of children, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
